2011-01-17, 11:12 PM
You figure that the universe (according to Steven Hawking's latest assessment) is 14 billion years old. Because what we see in space as star-light is at most this ancient there is no way we could ever actually tell what is or isn't there without actually finding a way to get there that is fairly close to the Star Trek Warp Travel method of spacial folding to shorten the time frame of that travel.
